Somewhere, as you read this, it is likely that national defense organizations in a dozen countries are spinning up their own LLMs, ones without guardrails. While most publicly available AI image and video generation tools have some safeguards in place, a sufficiently advanced system without restrictions can produce highly realistic fabricated content on demand. This could include creating nonconsensual intimate imagery, political disinformation targeting public figures, or hoaxes aimed at manipulating stock prices. An unconstrained AI assistant would allow nearly anyone to generate convincing
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